Muslims used to vote Republican

[Rational Jew]

Apparently, prior to "war on terror", Arabs and Muslims used to vote overwhelmingly Republican. 80% of Muslims living in the US backed Bush in 2000. Isn't this sad that even Arab Muslim Nazis, who generally hate America, vote for republican candidates while American Jews remain the most left-leaning group in the United States.

Below are the passages showing how Arabs used to vote.

http://middleeast.about.com/od/usmideastpolicy/a/me080922.htm

A nationwide survey of 400 Arab Americans conducted in October 1996 by the Arab American Institute found 42% of respondents identifying themselves as Republicans, 36.5% as Democrats and 21.4% as either independents or as registered with a third party.

Bush won the Arab vote in 2000. A Zogby poll of 505 Arab Americans shortly after the vote found 45% for Bush, 38% for Gore, and a considerable 13.5% for Ralph Nader, who is of Lebanese descent.

The poll reflected the essentially conservative nature of the Arab vote: The more Muslim you are, the likelier you are to identify with the Evangelical side of the Republican Party platform, some of whose provisions could have been inspired by the mullah next door: spend public money on religious education, ban sex-ed, teach creationism, ban abortions, ban gay marriage.

In 2004, as I noted above, Zogby polling showed Arab American voters favoring Bush by a 10-to-1 margin, though it was not enough for Kerry to dent the Evangelical vote that tipped Bush into the winning column.

[Rational Jew]

An old article posted on Free Republic reporting that majority of Muslims voted for Dubya.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/fr/555882/posts

As America restlessly awaits the announcement of the next president of the United States, American Muslim groups have already determined the impact American Muslim voters have had on the election. According to two separate exit polls, American Muslims cast votes overwhelmingly for George W. Bush.

An exit poll released on Friday conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations reveals that 72 percent of American Muslims voted for Bush and nineteen percent voted for Ralph Nader. Eight percent of respondents said they supported Al Gore, which is a drop from 24 percent in a previous poll conducted in September. Muslims from the states of California, Virginia, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Texas, and New Jersey responded to the poll that was conducted through hand distribution, email, and fax.

The American Muslim Alliance conducted a post-election telephone survey and found that more than 80 percent of Muslim Americans cast ballots for Bush and 10 percent voted for Nader. In an exit poll of Florida Muslims, AMA found that 91 percent of those polled had voted for Bush. Approximately 100,000 Muslims reside in the state of Florida of which 60,000 are eligible voters.

[Tag-MehirTzedek]

The 2004 Vote: Anti-Bush Rather than Pro-Kerry

Bush quickly lost the Arab vote, and trust, following Sept. 11, 2001, when he ordered the rounding up of thousands of Arabs without charges and unleashed his “war on terror,” which many Arabs and Muslims saw as a war on Arabs and Muslims.

The USA Patriot Act, Guatanamo Bay, torture and the use of secret evidence against suspects didn’t go down well with the Arab voter, especially after Bush’s broken promise of 2000. In his second debate with Al Gore that October, Bush had decried the fact that “Arab-Americans are racially profiled in what is called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we have to do something about that.” He did: he institutionalized the practice. Bush’s unwavering support of Israel didn’t help.

In 2004, as I noted above, Zogby polling showed Arab American voters favoring Bush by a 10-to-1 margin, though it was not enough for Kerry to dent the Evangelical vote that tipped Bush into the winning column.

The 2008 Vote: Obama Ahead of McCain by Wide Margin

In September 2008, Zogby International released a poll that showed Barack Obama easily beating John McCain, 54% to 33%. [See details of the polling results.

Muslim Arabs in the sample of 501 picked Obama over McCain, 84% to 4%, with third-party candidates taking the rest. McCain did better among Catholic Arab Americans, most of whom are of Lebanese descent, winning that category by 53% over Obama’s 31%. Among registered independents, Obama and McCain split with 44% each.

Another significant finding by the poll: 46% of Arab Americans are now registered Democratic, the highest rate since Zogby began polling in 1996. Arab Americans registered Republicans have fallen to 20%, the lowest rate since 1996. Independents are at 19%, compared with 23% in 1996.